Benjamin Franklin is one of those quintessential American figures, so it seems like there would be dozens of biographies of him out there. The truth is, there really aren’t that many… probably because he wrote his own (and who has the audacity to try to out-write Ben Franklin, on the...
Benjamin Franklin, American printer and publisher, author, inventor and scientist, and diplomat. One of the foremost of the American Founding Fathers, he helped draft the Declaration of Independence. He also made important contributions to science, espec
As he was finishing his run on the Lakefront Trail, a running path next to the waterfront, a woman stepped from behind a tree right into his path. Here’s what I wrote in my novel describing this crucial moment. “It was her, his angel, in a light-yellow T-shirt and snug-fitting ...
1969 The Man from New York: John Quinn and His Friends Benjamin Lawrence Reid 1970 Huey Long T. Harry Williams 1971 Robert Frost: The Years of Triumph, 1915–1938 Lawrance Thompson 1972 Eleanor and Franklin: The Story of Their Relationship, Based on Eleanor Roosevelt's Private Papers Jose...
So I started reading books in pairs. So they can be about people -- ["Benjamin Franklin" by Walter Isaacson]["John Adams" by David McCullough] -- who are involved in the same event, or friends with shared experiences. ["Personal History" by Katharine Graham]["The Snowball: Warren Buffet...
Most issues are inscribed on the front covers with thanks and regards to Curt Bühler who, in 1960, wrote the definitive study of early books titled The Fifteenth-Century Book, the Scribes, the Printers, the Decorators. Some pages darkened, some edges brittle. Covers of a few volumes ...
Our national historical story is full of illustration of the American success story.For instance,Benjamin Franklin was the very model of the self-educated,self-made man,who rose from modest origins to become a well-known scientist,philosopher,and statesman.In the nineteenth century,Horatio Alger,a...
Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Awardfor most distinguished informational book for children:“Bomb: The Race to Build—and Steal—the World’s Most Dangerous Weapon” by Steve Sheinkin. Honor Books were: “Electric Ben: The Amazing Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin,” written and illustrated...
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He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me." Benjamin Franklin wrote, "In order of time, I should have mentioned before, that having, in 1742, invented an open stove for the...